Purpose of this forum : creating knowledge resources or spreading bitcoins ?

[hilariousandco]

Can you just tell us what you really want?

I am not the right person to suggest any change here.
But I just started this topic just to ensure whether we are traveling in a right path as per founder's wish.

Signature campaigns were not around when satoshi was here so we have no idea what he would think of them or what his wish would be so the admins/staff run the forum the way they feel best. I'm still not sure what you want though. You want people to give people who don't know much about bitcoin or can't speak English very well a break and leave them alone?

Please listen to consensus (especially for treating non-English speakers and non-technical people accordingly)

What's the consensus here exactly? Whether you are non-English or non-technical is irrelevant. Nobody should be able to get away with making very poor posts solely for payment and that's something that needs to change.

[Have_good_times]

Can you just tell us what you really want?

I am not the right person to suggest any change here.
But I just started this topic just to ensure whether we are traveling in a right path as per founder's wish.

Signature campaigns were not around when satoshi was here so we have no idea what he would think of them or what his wish would be so the admins/staff run the forum the way they feel best. I'm still not sure what you want though. You want people to give people who don't know much about bitcoin or can't speak English very well a break and leave them alone?

You mean to say we are on right path ? Okay, lets wait and watch the survival of fittest.

[Wendigo]

Can you just tell us what you really want?

I am not the right person to suggest any change here.
But I just started this topic just to ensure whether we are traveling in a right path as per founder's wish.

Signature campaigns were not around when satoshi was here so we have no idea what he would think of them or what his wish would be so the admins/staff run the forum the way they feel best. I'm still not sure what you want though. You want people to give people who don't know much about bitcoin or can't speak English very well a break and leave them alone?

You mean to say we are on right path ? Okay, lets wait and watch the survival of fittest.

You just contradicted yourself. Get some English classes or attend some English course if you don't want to be left in the dirt and starve to death. Animal Planet-style.

[hilariousandco]

Can you just tell us what you really want?

I am not the right person to suggest any change here.
But I just started this topic just to ensure whether we are traveling in a right path as per founder's wish.

Signature campaigns were not around when satoshi was here so we have no idea what he would think of them or what his wish would be so the admins/staff run the forum the way they feel best. I'm still not sure what you want though. You want people to give people who don't know much about bitcoin or can't speak English very well a break and leave them alone?

You mean to say we are on right path ? Okay, lets wait and watch the survival of fittest.

Right path to what? It's hard to fully understand what you mean and this is why people who can't speak English very well are a huge problem, especially when they're getting paid to post without any quality checks because it makes them post more whilst spending less time on their posts and sometimes on multiple accounts which exacerbates the issue exponentially. I am almost certain that this bitcoin forum will outlast any other though. In fact, I'd even be willing to bet on it. The only other way I could see another forum surpassing us in size of traffic would be if we banned signature campaigns outright and they allowed them as all sig spammers would quickly jump ship and migrate over to there, but if that did happen they'd soon rue the days when people could have quality discussion without armies of people who are solely there just to earn a bit of money as quickly and lazily as they can by spamming rubbish. Again, if someone has a problem with English then post in the local boards. If you don't know much about the technology behind bitcoin then don't post in tech threads. Pretty simple really. If you don't like the way this forum is run either choose another message board or create your own to run it the way you see fit. If your forum is clearly better than this one, then indeed; survival of the fittest and your forum will become the most popular.

[DarkStar_]

But we cannot expect non-native English speakers to participate into higher end discussions.

My native language is Mandarin (Chinese), I live in Canada, and can speak fluent English as well as participate in higher end discussions.

Can you just tell us what you really want?

Please listen to consensus (especially for treating non-English speakers and non-technical people accordingly)

While Bitcoin is based on consensus, that doesn't mean that all forums and services have to be based around it. We would never reach consensus with all the users on the forums, and all the low quality posters would vote for allowing them to spam (duh), and all the people that care about the forum/are annoyed with them will vote against it.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

It's not fucking loose! IT's lose!! We might fucking lose a possible Bitcoin adopter!!
My OCD is kicking in.

LOL.

I'm sorry, the English-language-murderers are a problem on this forum.  What I see is them mostly just shitting out post after post for their sig campaigns.  The content of those posts is, invariably, vapid.  Bereft of substance.  They should be banned, because they don't add anything to the forum.  Hopefully we'll see good results with the SMAS thing.

This is an English-language board, but there are local boards that are apparently very active.  People with extremely poor English skills need to stay away from this section.

[Quickseller]

Why Satoshi has created this forum ?

To talk about bitcoin, hence the name bitcointalk.

The forum was actually originally hosted on the bitcoin.org domain when satoshi brought it over from sourceforge. The bitcointalk domain was not used until either very late 2009 or early 2010